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January 9, 2020

3rd January 2020 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

MiG-27; Winter monsoon; El Niño, La Niña impact on NE monsoon; Savitribai Phule’s 189th birth anniversary; Kalapani Dispute; Lord Curzon; Partition of Bengal; 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife; Florence Nightingale; Mandu Utsav; Tiger Conservation; Privileges individually enjoyed by the members; Privileges enjoyed by the members collectively as part of parliament; Parliamentary breach or contempt of the house; What is the privileges committee? 107th edition of Indian Science Congress; Farmers Science Congress; Rashtriya Kishore Vaigyanik Sammelan (Children’s Science Congress); Women Science Congress; Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA); etc.

January 4, 2020

2nd January 2020 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2019; Guru Govind Singh Jayanti; Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY); “Political Parties Registration Tracking Management System (PPRTMS)”; Senna spectabilis; Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve; Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary; Mobile Aided Note Identifier (MANI) app; Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear installations; Operation Brasstacks; Gaganyan; Chandrayaan; Chandrayaan 2; Chandrayaan 3; Global drop in Tobacco usage; Satellite communication [SATCOM] technology; Receive only terminals (ROT) and satellite interactive terminals (SIT); etc.

January 4, 2020

1st January 2020 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Swachh Survekshan; Citizenship Amendment Act; National PopulationRegister (NPR); ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN); Indian History Congress; Bharata Itihasa Samshodhaka Mandala (BISM); Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (Quarter 1 and Quarter 2); National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP); Bhima Koregaon battel; Peshwa Baji Rao II; Sambhaji Maharaj, Govind Gopal Mahar, Forest fire points (FFP); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); jhoom or jhum cultivation; Article 21 of Constitution; Juanga tribe; Paudi Bhuyan tribes; Ghataprabha river; Krishna river

January 2, 2020

[RSTV The Big Picture] Fire Safety in India

There are stringent fire safety norms in existence. What is required is all stakeholders must be trained as well as trained to adhere to implement these norms in letter and spirit.

January 2, 2020

29th & 30th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

What is Accession Day? Swami Shraddhanand; Mahatma Munshi Ram; Hindu Sangathan, Arya Samaj? Indian national Anthem; Rabindra Nath Tagore; Maharaja Hari Singh; Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill; Anti-maritime piracy bill; Code on industrial relations bill; Social security code bill; Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019; Parliamentary Committees; Types of Standing Committees; What is Deposit insurance? Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC); Budapest Convention on Cybercrime or the Budapest Convention; India State of Forest Report 2019; Difference between Forest Cover and Recorded Forest Area (RFA); International Space Station (ISS); Drake Passage; Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle; eBkray platform; Indian Banks Auctions Mortgaged Properties Information (IBAPI) Portal; Bandhavgarh National Park

December 28, 2019

27th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

What is solar eclipse? Grounds for divorce under Hindu law; Section 27 of The Special Marriage Act, 1954; Article 142 of the Constitution; Irretrievable breakdown of marriage; Eat Right Mela; NetSCoFAN (Network for Scientific Co-operation for Food Safety; Eat Right India; FL 2027 (FC-5); Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV&FR) Act, 2001; Tibetan Gazelle; Nari Shakti Puraskar; International Women’s Day; Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS); What is IPO (Initial public offering)?What is Offer for Sale? What is Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP)? SATAT; MulyaPravah; Guru-Dakshta; University Grants Commission (UGC); Satavahana dynasty

December 27, 2019

26th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Madan Mohan Malviya; Satyameva Jayate; Recycling of Ships Act, 2019; What is Hong Kong International Convention? Good Governance Index; Jal Jeevan Mission; What is Locust? short-horned grasshoppers; gregarious phase; Locust Warning Organization; Orange Festival; Amur Falcon; National Consumer Day; Hoolock Gibbon; Brachiation; Indian Rhinoceros; Black Panther; Melanism; ghost striping

December 26, 2019

25th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Bar-headed Goose; Swadesh Darshan Scheme; What is Tourist Circuit? Run Through Files; Universal Postal Union (UPU); Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY); Chief of Defence Staff; Kargil Review Committee; Naresh Chandra Committee on defence; What is oxygen Parlour? Rohtang tunnel; Tsokar wetlands; Asian Waterbird Census; Him Darshan train; Vistadome; Kalka–Shimla railway; Typhoon Phanfone; Super Typhoon Haiya

December 25, 2019

24th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Kisan Diwas; Chaudhary Charan Singh; Mental disorder; Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALYs); Challenges of Mental health services in India; Financial Action Task Force (FATF); What is blacklist and grey list? Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) system; Environment Education Awareness and Training scheme; National Green Corps (NGC) ‘Ecoclub’ programme; What are Detention centres? What are Open Market Operations (OMO)? What is Microdot technology? Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY); What are AT&C Losses? ‘Accelerated Power Development and ReformsProgramme’ (APRDP) programme; What are Microplastics and Macroplastics? Spandana programme; Gfiles awards;

December 24, 2019

22nd & 23rd December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Winter Solstice 2019; Nagpur Resolution; What is solstice? Yule; Spring Equinox; Hard and soft schools; US Space Force; Organization of Islamic Cooperation; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Hardy-Ramanujan number; Mission Shat Pratishat; What is CFA franc? Chillai Kalan; Chillai Khurd; Challai Bache; Hunar Haats; 2019 U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue; Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA); General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA); Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA); Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA); International Space Station; Society of Biotechnology of India (SBPI); AH-64E Apache attack helicopters; etc.

December 24, 2019

PIB Daily – 24th December 2019 – IASToppers

National Green Corps (NGC) ‘Ecoclub’ programme; Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) system; Environment Education Awareness and Training scheme;

December 23, 2019

20th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize; GST Council; What is GST Compensation Cess? Special Economic Zone (SEZ); SEZ in Tripura; Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP); Balimela Reservoir; Sileru River; Operation Twist; Open Market Operations; Processing-grade White Onion (PWO-2); Section 144; National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT); Jim Corbett National Park

December 20, 2019

19th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

Houbara bustards; Phase-III of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY); What is the strength of Lok Sabha? Delimitation; Impeachment process of US President; Silver Line or SHSR corridor; What are Semi High Speed Trains? trastuzumab; What is a biosimilar medicine? Difference between Biosimilar and generic drugs; Apharan exercise; EVM under RTI; 20th anniversary of the former Portuguese colony’s handover to Chinese rule; Location of Macau; Sahitya Akademi Awards; etc.

December 19, 2019

17th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

The Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984; Privilege motion; What is the privileges committee? What is a public property? K T Thomas Committee; Fali Nariman Committee; What is National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT)? What is Real time gross settlement systems (RTGS)? Project Dolphin; Gangetic dolphins; StrandHogg; Amitabha Bagchi; 2019 DSC Prize; Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary; Golden Mahseer fish; Vijay Diwas; What is Kargil war? etc.

December 18, 2019

14th December 2019 Current Affairs Analysis – IASToppers

What is a Human Milk Bank? Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY); Heavy metals contaminating India’s rivers; What are Rare Earth elements? 2019 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI); International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Classification by the IUCN Red List; Exercise ‘Iron Union 12’; Essential Medicines; National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA); Drug Prices Control Order, 2013; Accessible India Campaign (AIC); Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995; Comprehensive Lactation Management Centres (CLMC) and Lactation Management Unit (LMU); Importance of breast feeding; National Energy Conservation Day; National Energy Conservation Awards; etc.

December 16, 2019

PIB Daily – 15th & 16th December 2019 – IASToppers

Namami Gange Programme; National Ganga Council; Ganga river; ‘Sustainable Development Cell’ (SDC);